How devastating is it losing a game 7 for the Stanley Cup?

[bucks_oil]

Just wondering for those fans that have lost a game 7 how devastating was the lost?

Meh... it's not so bad unless, say, your Hall of Fame defender announces he wants to be traded 3 days later, you receive table scraps in return and descend into a decade of darkness where you don't even make the playoffs... during which, any time you have a glimmer of hope and express your enthusiasm 29 other fanbases ridicule you for having the worst management in the sport and don't understand why your fanbase might develop a bit of a defensive complex.

... but otherwise it's not that bad at all.

 

[BPD]

f*** Alec Martinez and Dwight King for all eternity. I will never, ever forget how much I hated losing that series. The cost in agony, time, money, energy, and for one unlucky friend of mind, losing a fight with a metal pole.

If I ran a bar in New York, Alec Martinez would have to pay for well liquor as if I were serving him Louis XIII, and Dwight King would have his receipt reviewed and tripled.

 

[Czechboy]

2006 and roloson injury piss me off to this day. I loved that 2006 team and it has many Czechs contributing to it as well. Best of both worlds ... Till it wasn't.lol

 

[bucks_oil]

Yes. As a kid it seemed all to easy and much more the norm. And then poof.....it was over.

And that is why I am truly relishing this. That is why when we beat Dallas I literally dropped to my knees in front of my theater screen and cried. Would probably have made for a good photo.....grown man on knees crying in front of a 176" screen. lol


BTW...1986....you have any idea how it felt losing the way we did after being as spoilt as we were? Could possibly have been 6 straight trips....

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I wept when we beat Dallas as well. Could not believe it.

 

[snag]

I wept when we beat Dallas as well. Could not believe it.

yes....I was too lol

My wife was scornfully laughing at me. Won't shed a tear at the saddest of movies. Choke it back and fight it at funerals.

Yet here I was over a hockey team lol

Granted.....she was damn excited too....

 

[The Winter Soldier]

He won the cup in his first finals appearance, and he can win it in these finals, which will probably be his last

So it's like championship sandwich. Err non championship sandwich I guess

On the other side there’s Paul Maurice. Man this one is going to suck or great one way or the other. I feel for one of them.

 

[McShogun99]

As bad as a loss would suck for a fan of the team I couldn't even imagine what a player would feel. 2 months of heavy travel and working your ass off just to come up short.

 

[Mike C]

Isles didn't even make it to the Cup and I'll never get over the 1-0 loss against Tampa game 7 of the ECF.

However, losses like this build character. Don't jump ship. Stay loyal and you will eventually be rewarded.

Right?


Right???

Well, if you consider firing a Cup winning coach so you can keep the Ice Capades in town, hiring Handsome Lane as the new voice, having a goalie regress as soon as payday happened and back to back 1st round exits a reward, then you hit it right on the head!

 

[SheldonJPlankton]

 

[The Winter Soldier]

Isles didn't even make it to the Cup and I'll never get over the 1-0 loss against Tampa game 7 of the ECF.

However, losses like this build character. Don't jump ship. Stay loyal and you will eventually be rewarded.

Right?


Right???

From the highs of Beauvillier’s game 6 OT goal to a 1 goal loss to face Montreal for the cup. Those things haunt you. isles have not gotten that close since that loss. You never know when you will be this close again, makes game 7’s in the cup finals unbearable if you are on the wrong side.

 

[snag]

As bad as a loss would suck for a fan of the team I couldn't even imagine what a player would feel. 2 months of heavy travel and working your ass off just to come up short.

...a life-long aspiration and body of work.....

 

[PuckG]

Obviously losing in any fashion is an absolute gut punch. But having 4 shots to win the big prize… and losing them all?

I honestly cannot fathom anything worse as a sports fan. I would be ruined.

Losing in the first round over and over again would be far worse IMO.

 

[behemolari]

Losing in seven is the worst because you end up scrutinizing every little play in every game you lost coping about how if you got one bounce here or there it'd have ended differently. It's easy easier to lose in five and just go "welp, got our asses kicked"

nope, losing in seven while losing four in a row is worst

sucks life out of you

 

[FinlandPanther]

I’ll let you know in about 10 hours.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

imagine being Hossa after the DET and PIT wins lol

 

[Perfect_Drug]

I'm still not really over 2006.

The Pic of Todd Harvey is etched into my gut.
Felt like losing a family pet.

This one is just different. This one feels way heavier.


It feels like this one is carrying the ghosts and memories of Ben Stetler, Joey Moss, and Colby Cave,
Fair or not, losing this one would really feel like failing them, and what they meant to this organization and this city.

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[sinDer]

I guess it depends of how the series went.

At this point, I think Oilers’ fans would be more devastated than Panthers’ fans.

 

[gn2007]

imagine being Hossa after the DET and PIT wins lol

Lol perry begs to differ lol

 

[sr edler]

It's not that big of a deal, in a way it's positive because it builds character and teaches you good life lessons.

 

[NYI365]

Isles didn't even make it to the Cup and I'll never get over the 1-0 loss against Tampa game 7 of the ECF.

However, losses like this build character. Don't jump ship. Stay loyal and you will eventually be rewarded.

Right?


Right???

To the day I die I'll never understand the choices that went on in the minds of those 3 players in the d-zone on the SHG

 

[NVious]

That's why being a Leafs fan is GOATed, we never have to deal with such disappointment

 

[McGarnagle]

nope, losing in seven while losing four in a row is worst

sucks life out of you

I've been there and honestly don't lose too much sleep over 2010 (getting revenge the next year helped smooth that out I'm sure). Bruins were lucky to go up 3-0 in the first place, and we lost Krejci and Sturm while Philly got Gagne back so they were the better team by the end.

Losing after a 3-0 lead in game seven sucked hard at the time but in the grand scheme of things I'm way more traumatized by game seven loses in 2012, 2014, 2019, and 2023 than by 2010.

 

[Saga of the Elk]

2006 and roloson injury piss me off to this day. I loved that 2006 team and it has many Czechs contributing to it as well. Best of both worlds ... Till it wasn't.lol

We got so used to losing to Dallas. But then that Detroit series happened, and every subsequent series win seemed more and more improbable. Looking back at the Canes team, it's almost a little surprising it went 7, but the Oilers had what it took to win, and beat the odds, and yeah just short. I'll always feel bad for guys like Hemsky, Smyth, and Smith.

Blows my mind that it was the last season for Lemieux, Yzerman, Robitaille, Mogliny, Hull...

I was living in New York and sleeping on a couch and couldn't find a bar that was willing to search their tv set for the "Outdoor Life Network."

Now there's a Canadian bar in my neighbourhood.

Maybe everything really is different for tonight.

 

[Czechboy]

We got so used to losing to Dallas. But then that Detroit series happened, and every subsequent series win seemed more and more improbable. Looking back at the Canes team, it's almost a little surprising it went 7, but the Oilers had what it took to win, and beat the odds, and yeah just short. I'll always feel bad for guys like Hemsky, Smyth, and Smith.

Blows my mind that it was the last season for Lemieux, Yzerman, Robitaille, Mogliny, Hull...

I was living in New York and sleeping on a couch and couldn't find a bar that was willing to search their tv set for the "Outdoor Life Network."

Now there's a Canadian bar in my neighbourhood.

Maybe everything really is different for tonight.

It better be... losing in the finals every 18 years isn't fun.lol

Awesome story about the OLN... totally different time! Was HF even a thing in 2006?haha

 

[Schennanigans]

Your chances of becoming mentally ill has probably increased.